Our Story Begins

May 2003 – Our Story begins…

Looking world wide for a good deal the boat builder John Olson saw a nice sailing yacht for sale in Scotland. His interest in this yacht increased considerably as he recognized the naval architect – Chuck Burns. No wonder: John built a very fast Burns design called Belladonna. He decided to have a closer look at the boat and asked Frank to join him. So in May 2003 they took a flight to Scotland and met Dolores and Robby in Ardfern to inspect Rolling Stone. After serious inspection he decided to buy the yacht but he needed not only „some“ assistance in sharing the risk of buying her but also in sailing her to Germany. As a matter of course he knew that Frank and me grewed up with sailing and had sailed thousand of miles in our entire life. Not very surprising because our father had his first sailing boat before I was born and we did indeed extensive cruises during holiday with the whole family.